9 Movie Scenes You Didn't Know Had A Guest Director

9. Checking Facebook - The Social Network

The Social Network’s director David Fincher is noted for his attention to detail, with many stars falling out with him over his Stanley Kubrick like obsession with filming take after take after take.

It’s a little strange then that he was willing to part with a scene in the Facebook drama.

The most famous example of Fincher’s repetition came during Fight Club, when he had a stuntman stand in for Ed Norton’s Narrator throw himself down a set of stairs eleven times; Fincher used the first take.

A less entertaining example of Fincher’s attention to detail occurred while filming Gone Girl. Ben Affleck put a filter on the camera designed to make it 5% darker, betting the crew that Fincher wouldn’t notice. Within seconds of looking into the lens though, Fincher asked why his camera was so dark.

Back to The Social Network though. He’d been so impressed with screenwriter Aaron Sorkin during production, that he decided to allow Sorkin to film the final shot. The film wasn’t shot in order, so it wasn’t the harrowing zoom out of Zuckerberg alone at his desk which Sorkin directed, but a minor scene involving extras checking Facebook, but still. Quite the gesture from Fincher.